Play It. Check It. Fix It. Deliver It.

Professional media player, inspector and correction tool for Mac and Windows.

Everything you need in one application. Switch lets you play a variety of web and professional media formats, inspect and adjust the properties of the file and export a new file. Designed for media professionals, Switch enables visual file inspection, single file transcoding and is an affordable software solution for professional media Quality Control.

Play ItTrust Switch for frame-accurate, smooth playback of all your media files, including captions and subtitles. Includes SDI out for external preview.

Affordable high-quality QCWith features such as professional audio meters with loudness monitoring, HDMI/SDI Output to an external monitor, easy media file comparison feature, and support for playback of captions, Switch Pro provides an affordable software solution for professional media Quality Control.

Caption playback and verificationPlay CEA-608 & CEA-708 captions, as well as SCC, DVB, TTML (iTT and SMPTE-TT) and WebVTT, SRT and STL subtitle files to verify timing and accuracy. Switch is the only software player with full support for CEA-708 caption decoding, including advanced 708-only features like Unicode character support.

Deep file inspectionSwitch gives you frame-accurate playback of all your media and lets you see detailed information about it in an intuitive, well-organized interface. See metadata (including DPP), bitrate, video essence and codec, audio channels, speaker assignments, and loudness levels. Also compare multiple files in a single window – great for ABR workflows.

*Note: Minimum specifications are the required hardware for playback of standard definition content. Playback of demanding content such as 4K, HEVC, and high frame rate video may require more powerful hardware.

PLAYER FORMAT SUPPORT

Containers:

AAC

AC31

AIFF

ASF1

AVC (AVC Elementary Stream)

AVI (OpenDML)

DV

GXF

HEVC2,3 (HEVC Elementary Stream)

IMF4

LXF

M1V (MPEG-1 Video Elementary Stream)

M2V (MPEG-2 Video Elementary Stream)

MOV

MP3 (MPEG Layer 1, 2, 3 Audio Elementary Stream)

MP4 (ISO Base Media Format)

MPG (MPEG-1 System Stream)

MPS (MPEG-2 Program Stream)

MTS (MPEG-2 Transport Stream)

MXF (AS-115 with UK DPP metadata)

MXF (OP-1a; AS-02, AS-035, AS-115)

MXF (OP-1a Proxy)

MXF (OP-1b)

MXF (OP-Atom)

SCC6

WAV

Video Codecs (decode only)

Apple QuickTime Animation RLE7

Apple ProRes

DNxHD4

DNxHR4

DV 25

DVCPro 25

DVCPro 50

DVCPro 100

DVCPro HD

H.263

H.264

H.2651

JPEG

JPEG20004

MPEG-1

MPEG-22

MPEG-4

Uncompressed YUV

WMV8

Audio Codecs (decode only)

AAC

AC31

G.711 aLaw

G.711 uLaw

G.726

Microsoft ADPCM

MPEG Audio Layer 1, 2, 3

PCM

WMA1

Captions:

Extraction and playback: CEA-608, CEA-708

DVB files

SCC6 files

SRT files

STL files

TTML/iTT/SMPTE-TT files

WebVTT (HTML5) files

ENCODE FORMAT SUPPORT8

Containers

MOV

MPEG-2 TS/PS

MPEG-4

MXF (OP-1a, OP-Atom)

Video Codecs

Apple ProRes9

MPEG-2 Video

x264

Audio Codecs

AAC

MPEG Layer 2

PCM

1 Not supported in Switch Player. 2 Not supported in Switch Player for Windows. 3 HEVC support of 8-bit 4:2:0 profiles in Elementary Streams, MPEG-2 Transport Stream or MP4 files. 4 Not supported in Switch Player and Switch Plus. 5 Advanced inspection of application-specific metadata included in Switch Pro. 6 Currently supports export of .scc files as part of an iTunes asset-only package. 7 Currently supports 24-bit and 32-bit only. 8 WMV playback available in Switch Plus and Pro, and available in Switch Player for Mac with Flip4Mac installed. 9 Switch export is available for Plus and Pro. 10 ProRes export on Windows is ProRes HQ 4:2:2 for iTunes only.

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Videoguys.com is the evolution of The Electronic Mailbox -a family owned and operated business that has proudly served videographers and producers like you for more than 30 years. For three generations, we have been shooting footage of our growing families and have spent countless hours editing. We actually install and use the equipment we sell and we love to share our experience and expertise with you.